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	Burial mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Burial mounds or tumuli are pre- Roman features of the Europe an landscape.
		Burial Mound of Queen of Sacae Found in Uzbekistan An article from Eurasia.net reporting of the discovery of a 2nd or 1st century B.C.E. burial mound of a queen of the Sacae tribe.
		Miamisburg Mound The largest conical burial mound in the state of Ohio.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Burial_mound.html (422 words)

	"Golden Man", Issyk burial mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The burial mound is 60 m in diameter and 6 m in height.
		The mound itself is multilayered (3-4 layers), a layer of rubble is intermingled with that of road-metal and clay.
		On his fingers the Sak from the Issyk burial mound had two massive gold rings one of which was represented by a seal-ring with an image of a man's profile in a splendid head-dress.
	members.tripod.com /~kz2000/history/saka.html (1005 words)

	Burial Mounds (Adena Ritual)
		In a sense it was those initial burials in their "minimalist" mound structure which may have been the most significant in mound formation; it was they who triggered subsequent burial additions.
		Sheer mound size no doubt reflected social-environmental factors and implicitly was a comment upon the intensity and continuity of local mortuary ritual; the size of the mound, however, was not a characteristic inherent in the structure or a factor in ritual organization.
		Because they are highly visible landmarks, burial mounds have generally prompted the interpretation that they contained the graves of high status individuals: in fact, the more specific assumption has been that the larger the mound, the higher the status of the dead within.
	www.gbl.indiana.edu /abstracts/adena/mounds.html (1736 words)

	Japan Times: Burial mound discovered in Kyoto thought to date back to Yayoi Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KYOTO (Kyodo) A burial mound that may be one of the largest from the mid-to-late Yayoi Period ever unearthed in Japan has been found at the Hiyoshigaoka Ruins in the town of Kaya, Kyoto Prefecture, officials of the local board of education said Thursday.
		Other artifacts dug up from the site lead experts to believe that the mound dates back to the first century B.C. According to the town's board of education, the four sides of the burial mound are covered with flat stones that measure at least 40 cm.
		Mounds of this kind are scattered along the Sea of Japan coast from Shimane Prefecture to Kyoto Prefecture.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/makeprfy.pl5?nn20010525b3.htm (411 words)

	Tejas > Caddo Ancestors > Woodlands Cultures
		Within one of the burial mounds was a log-covered pit sealed by layers of cane and clay that may represent a "charnal" house where the bodies of the dead were processed before mass burial.
		Similar artifacts are known from early Marksville burial mounds and in burial mounds of the Adena culture of the Ohio River valley far to the northeast.
		Similar reel-shaped artifacts are known from early Marksville burial mounds and in burial mounds of the Adena culture of the Ohio River valley far to the northeast.
	www.texasbeyondhistory.net /tejas/ancestors/woodland.html (7323 words)

	Images! Deep Inside a UK Burial Mound
		Inside a mound discovered in a farmer's field there lies a strange structure, thought to date to neolithic or Bronze Age Scotland, is a three-compartment building with with two stairways leading into it.
		The mound is surrounded by a large ditch.
		The mound was entered briefly in 1945 by the farmer who owns the field, then re-sealed and left unexplored until earlier this month.
	www.antiquities.net /neolith.htm (184 words)

	MAN No 6 1964 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These mounds were surveyed by Theodore Lewis in the 19th century and are listed on page 249 [sic] Winchell's Aborigines of Minnesota (St. Paul, 1911.) The Eck mound was apparently mound 12, described by Lewis as 40 feet in diameter and 1-1/2 feet in height, and the only remaining mound of the group.
		In the former are found primary flexed burials in shallow graves; in the latter the typical burial is probably multiple secondary bundle burial on the surface with a mound erected over the bones.
		The mound is probably of the Late Woodland period and it might be placed in the Kathio-Focus [sic] of the Mille Lacs Aspect, the culture ascribed to the Dakota.
	www1.minn.net /~pemerson/Library/MAN/MAN_06_1964.html (1765 words)

	ipedia.com: Burial Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mass burial is the practice of burying dozens, hundreds, or thousands of individuals in one massive pit, much like a landfill for human remains.
		Civilizations attempting genocide often employ mass burial for the people they kill in the genocide, as it coincides neatly with their goals of dehumanizing and destroying a segment of the population.
		Burial at sea is the practice of depositing the body an ocean or other large body of water instead of soil.
	www.ipedia.com /burial.html (1594 words)

	Darlene Applegate Watkins Site Paper
		In addition to Burial 30, Ray (n.d.) contended that Burials 8 and 14 were interments of the most important individuals, chiefs and subchiefs, of the group who used Mound A. Ray (n.d.) assigned 20 of the 48 burials to one of three zones according to depth, associated artifacts, and type of grave.
		Assuming that burials within an individual zone are associated and represent some relative interval of mound use, the assignment of burials to a zone is important for subdividing the interments into chronological units before intrazonal and interzonal comparisons of mortuary treatment are made.
		3 The depths of Zone II burials are somewhat complicated in that the depths recorded for five of the burials (21, 35, 51, 53, and 54) are depths to the cap rocks instead of the grave bottoms.
	www.wku.edu /~darlene.applegate/msac/front.html (5184 words)

	Mounds & Mound Builders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mound and two forts were the essential features of an Adena village in the shape of a triangle.
		The Criel Mound in South Charleston is the largest of approximately fifty conical type mounds of the Adena culture in an area west of Charleston extending to Institute.
		The precise age of the Criel Mound is unknown, but archaeologists believe it dates to the time of the Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, probably built between 250 and 150 BCE.
	www.wvculture.org /history/mounds.html (996 words)

	FS Ancient Mysteries: Ancient Mirrors Found In Burial Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two mirrors, both circular and made of iron, were discovered in Hananotani No.1--a burial mound in Fukui city that archeologists say dates from the beginning of the fourth century.
		The mirrors were found side by side in the remains of a wooden coffin located at the center of the circular-shaped burial mound, an official of the education board said.
		A mirror of the same type was unearthed two years ago at the Kurozuka burial mound in Nara Prefecture, which dates from the end of the third century to the beginning of the fourth century.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/ajapmirr.htm (410 words)

	Indian Country Today (Lakota Times): Relics robbed from burial mound subject of archaeological debate@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Relics robbed from burial mound subject of archaeological debate.
		MOUNT VERNON, Ind. -- Relics taken from an ancient Indian burial mound in Indiana will be returned to the earth, according to a spokesman for General Electric Plastics.
		The burial relics were dug up by looters in 1988.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:2241248&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (200 words)

	Japan Times: Ancient mirrors unearthed in Fukui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The round mirrors were found inside a wooden casket dating from the first half of the fourth century, at the Hananotani No. 1 burial mound in the city of Fukui.
		The fact that the Yayoi mirror was buried as an accessory to the later type suggested that the power of the Yayoi rulers had spread to the Fukui region in central Honshu but had declined in influence, they said.
		The larger of the two mirrors is of the same type as others unearthed earlier at the Kurozuka burial mound in Nara and the Ishizuka burial mound in Fukuoka Prefecture.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/makeprfy.pl5?nn20000902a8.htm (191 words)

	Archives: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the case of the Wilmot mound, the dirt in the mound seemed to be different from that in the surrounding area, indicating that it dirt came from somewhere other than the immediate area of the mound.
		At the Wilmot mound, however, the opposite was true, with from 70 to 90 percent of the stones originating away from the area, what Patsy White described as "exotic" rocks.
		In excavating the mound, the archeologists did not find any rocks in the fill, but they did find some bone fragments, including a deer's mandible which still had teeth in it, as well as other deer bones and mussel shells which could have come from the lake only about 100 feet away from the mound.
	www.ashleycountyledger.com /articles/2004/01/09/history/aaj.txt (1988 words)

	SPIRO MOUNDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Between 850 and 1450 A.D. twelve mounds, ceremonial areas, and a support city were eventually created for the Caddoan-speaking leadership who participated in the Mississippian Culture (also known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, the Southern Death Cult, and the Buzzard Cult).
		The twelve mounds of the Spiro Mounds complex, all of human origin, were constructed in layers from basket loads of dirt.
		While most of the mounds were for buildings to be placed upon or to cover old houses, the single burial mound attracted the most attention.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/spiro_mounds.htm (873 words)

	Town Creek Indian Mound - Burial Hut Exhibit
		This round building is a reconstruction of a burial house built on this location over 600 years ago.
		The roof was made of poles lashed together and covered with straw thatching on the outside, and river cane on the inside.
		Burial in the mortuary house was only part of a larger death ritual, which may have lasted for days.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/town/burial-hut.htm (655 words)

	Town Creek Indian Mound - Burial Hut Exhibit
		This round building is a reconstruction of a burial hut built on this location over 600 years ago.
		Burial in the mortuary hut was only part of a larger death ritual which may have lasted for days.
		As a guest to this burial ritual we ask that you view this scene with respect.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /spanish/sections/hs/town/burial-hut.htm (655 words)

	PYRAMIDS IN FLORIDA
		The construction of the early burial mound and a portion of the first temple mound would seem to indicate that the ancient Floridians of this culture were beginning to form some interests in social complexities.
		The main burial mound is a conical-shaped earthen (primarily white sand) mound 20 feet high, with a 70 foot basal diameter.
		The circular burial mound (mostly midden material) is six feet high and 75 feet wide and surrounds the main burial mound.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/3457/CRiver.htm (1150 words)

	OHS Places/Miamisburg Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Miamisburg Mound is the largest conical burial mound in the state of Ohio and possibly in the eastern U. Archaeological investigations of the surrounding area suggest that it was constructed by the prehistoric Adena Indians (800 BC - AD 100).
		Built on a 100-foot-high bluff, the mound measures 877 feet in circumference.
		Miamisburg Mound is on Mound Avenue, one mile south of exit 44 - State Route 725 - and three miles west of exit 42 off I-75, in Montgomery County.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/miamisbg (126 words)

	Dent Mound
		The mound itself is presently covered by oyster shells, soil, and large oaks and hickories.
		Burials were primary (buried shortly after death) or secondary (having some preparation via natural decomposition or intentional defleshing before burial).
		Some burials had associated grave goods including shells, stone tools, hinged bivalves (possibly food offerings), broken pottery, ochre (red soil), animal remains, and human skulls (ancestor veneration or war trophies?) Some skulls were buried face up and others face down.
	pelotes.jea.com /NativeAmerican1/Dent.htm (1460 words)

	OHS - Places - Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Atop a plateau overlooking the Brush Creek Valley, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States.
		In the late nineteenth-century Harvard University archaeologist Frederic Ward Putnam excavated Serpent Mound and attributed the creation of the effigy to the builders of the two nearby burial mounds, which he also excavated.
		Serpent Mound is on State Route 73, six miles north of State Route 32 and 20 miles south of Bainbridge in Adams County.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/serpent (340 words)

	burial mound -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The effigy mounds are sometimes mistakenly classified with the numerous mounds that dot the area east of the Mississippi River, believed to be the work of prehistoric Indians broadly, and not accurately, designated as the “mound builders.”
		The ritual burial of the dead probably stems from an instinctive refusal on the part of people to accept death as the complete end of an individual's existence.
		Ancient burial mounds and a lasting parliamentary system are part of the legacy of the Vikings' conquest of the Isle of Man.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018163?tocId=9018163 (865 words)

	Burial mound to get historical marker
		The mound, which may have been begun as recently as 250 B.C., was 161/2 feet tall and 85 feet in diameter.
		The burial mound was constructed in three stages.
		The bodies were not mummified but some were cremated, George said, adding that the Adena people buried their dead in the mound once or twice a year.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20010513mound4.asp (1103 words)

	Native American Mounds: Frequently Asked Questions About Burial Sites at the Wisconsin Historical Society
		The earliest mounds, dating to perhaps as early as 500 BC, were all conical (round) mounds and often contained many burials.
		If it doesn't and you think a mound is present on your property, the Burial Sites staff may be able to visit your property or, you may contact a qualified archaeologist to come and walk over your land.
		If a burial mound is present on your property, you are eligible for a tax exemption once the mound is catalogued.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /hp/burialsites/faq/moundsq.asp (371 words)

	Marathon Battlefield & Burial Mound \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Athens \| Frommers.com
		Although it was customary to bury war casualties in the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens, the 192 Athenian dead from this astonishing victory were cremated and buried together in the mound, which still stands on the battlefield.
		When the Athenian mound was excavated in the late 19th century, quantities of ashes and burnt bones were found.
		The mound where the Plataeans were buried, and the small archaeological museum with finds from the site and area, are both 2km (1 1/4 miles) from the battlefield in the village of Marathona.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/athens/A32682.html (774 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Plans for a prominent Waikiki burial mound to enshrine the bones of more than 300 ancestral Hawaiians cleared a final public review yesterday, and could resolve, at least temporarily, the issue of where to place skeletal remains inadvertently unearthed during construction in the state’s No. 1 tourist spot.
		The action pleased designers of the Waikiki burial mound, who say they are descended from Hawaiians whose bones were unearthed during recent construction on Kalakaua Avenue.
		Traditionally, iwi kupuna were buried in hidden places, and Hawaiians were reluctant to mark their graves for fear they would be desecrated by enemies.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Oct/24/1024localnews18.html (670 words)

	ARTKids Prehistoric Art - Various Sub-Cultures Page 1
		Eneolithic and Bronze Ages- Materials from the Maikop burial mound in the Northern Caucasus relate to the Age of Metal, the mid-3rd century BC.
		A lavishly dressed nomadic chief was found in this burial mound, his head crowned with two gold diadems, with a heavy necklace consisting of several rows of beads in gold, sard and turquoise.
		Large Altaic burial mounds were intended for those who occupied high positions in early nomadic society, such as chiefs, elders and priests.
	www.artfaces.com /artkids/prehistoric.htm (1330 words)

	Dent Mound
		As you approach the mound from the north, you walk over middens that are up to 18 feet deep, composed mostly of oyster shells.
		Part of the mound is on top of this midden, and the Indians performing the burials may have dug down into this midden substrate to inter at least 2 of the skeletons.
		The wide variety of pottery and lithic types suggests that the Dent Burial Mound was utilized by an extended family group during a two to three hundred year period.
	pelotes.jea.com /dentmoun.htm (1512 words)

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